ROYAL SUTTON COLDFIELD COMMUNITY TOWN HALL TRUST

Registered charity 1165712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCART, SUTTON COLDFIELD ARTS AND RECREATIONAL TRUST

Establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of Sutton Coldfield Town Hall.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an unrestricted operating deficit and held negative free reserves of £217,405 at year-end, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months' core operating expenditure (approximately £250,000). Per the trustees' report, the charity is dependent on securing additional unrestricted grant and fundraising income to meet its liabilities, creating a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bissell & Brown Midlands Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Enoch Evans — “We are thankful to Enoch Evans for supporting the Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Hall.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Bridges
• David Pears
• Janet Cairnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kaleem Hussain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Andrew Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Howard Mason · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robin Cook
• Rosemary Walton
• Russell Steele Ludlam · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEM TOWN HALL COMMUNITY TRUST LTD.

• WEM TOWN HALL COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £257k
• COTTENHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £329k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY SUTTON COLDFIELD income £269k
• JUBILEE HALL TRUST LIMITED income £1.8m
• LANGWORTHY CORNERSTONE ASSOCIATION LTD income £513k
• MELTHAM SPORTS AND COMMUNITY GROUP LIMITED income £134k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.